And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.